What will become of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice?
The historic building next to the Rialto Bridge currently houses a luxury shopping centre, which is soon to be closed. After numerous renovations, it was also entrusted to OMA in 2016.
Farewell to Filippo Panseca (1940-2024) the cancelled Italian artist
Dismissed as “Craxi's architect” the artist who left us at the age of 84 was an innovator, self-taught and capable of “bringing aesthetic projects to life on an unimaginable scale”.
With Oma, we visited the new Gallery of the Kings at Museo Egizio in Turin
The first space redefined by OMA with Ata, to coincide with the museum’s 200th anniversary, is open: a path from darkness to light, where the monumental statues of Karnak have moved closer to people.
Greenhouse regenerated for contemporary art in Bologna
In the capital of Emilia, the greenhouses at Giardini Margherita have become a centre of cultural production crossbreeding art, scientific research and ecology to become the city's heritage over the years.
Inside Studio Gang’s new vertical campus in Paris
Located in the new Rive Gauche district of Paris, the recently completed hub of the University of Chicago develops all its relationships in height, linking the genius loci to the institution's identity through materials.
Restoring and reinventing an old house on Lake Maggiore
Wespi de Meuron Romeo renovated a farmhouse on the border between Italy and Switzerland, combining stone, concrete and lake views in an austere language.
RAIM, Seoul’s self-made robotic museum
The Turkish studio Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA) has designed an educational museum dedicated to robotics and artificial intelligence that is constantly adapting to tell the story of the evolving technologies of the 21st century.
10 most important architecture prizes in the world and how to enter
From the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize of architecture, and the Biennale's Golden Lion to the Aga Khan Prize to the Italian Architecture Prize, here’s the awards selection that celebrate architects and their projects.
In China, bookstores and libraries are transforming the countryside
New architectural projects are emerging in the villages of rural China, bringing local communities together around books and attracting tourists from the cities. We have selected ten of them to explore.
A shared house is reborn in Verona
Romano Tinazzi rehabilitates a former railway workers' residence on the outskirts of the Veneto city, creating a co-living space for students and young workers that combines old and new through radical architectural gestures.
We visited Tom Dixon at his “mineral” villa in Mykonos
Created in collaboration with A31 Architecture, Villa Aimasia goes beyond Greek vernacular by embracing contemporary design, blending with the island’s geology, and orienting luxury to the tastes of design enthusiasts.
Aerodream, the spectacular history of inflatables
Art sets the pace and architecture follows
Frederic Migayrou, curator of the exhibition “Aerodream” at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, tells us the aesthetic and social evolution of these majestic inflatable structures, from Second World War until today.
A house made of details in Canton Ticino
In a dialogue with the local Modern tradition, Inches Geleta has extended a house in Italian Switzerland through light, the search for detail, and a rational metal structure.
Turin’s tennis-transformed architecture for the Atp Finals
A winter garden with courts and a system of lightweight structures designed by Benedetto Camerana bring tennis closer to an increasingly wide public, which is making it a religion.